Research suggests a new threat to life on Earth from the meteorite’s crash: Via seismic waves, the impact triggered massive undersea eruptions, as big as any ever seen in our planet’s history.
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The mass extinction of the dinosaurs was down to the location of the asteroid’s impact and the kind of rocks it landed on.
Their days were numbered for quite some time …
New research suggests the Chicxulub asteroid impact threw up billions of tons of oil soot that blocked out the sun for a decade.
Think you know all about the dinosaurs? You might be surprised.
New research reveals that mammals didn’t wait for the dinosaurs to die out before starting their rapid spread.
Was there a ‘dinosaur Pompeii’ in China? New research questions the claim.
A cosmological event could have unleased the huge comet or asteroid that led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
Jurassic World is opening in cinemas this Thursday and again raises the idea of resurrecting extinct creatures. But there’s plenty of other contenders before we even think of recreating dinosaurs.
Fossils of the oldest bird ever pushes back the evolutionary record for birds by nearly six million years.
A dinosaur has been found in Argentina which may have lasted beyond an extinction event that wiped out the rest of its family. The new species has been named Leinkupal laticauda, which in the language…
For 20 privileged Victorians, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins held a lavish New Year’s dinner party in 1853 inside a model of a dinosaur that was created for the Great Exhibition held two years earlier. Hawkins’s…
Meteorite impacts can be very destructive. One that fell in Mexico around 66m years ago created a 180km crater and caused the extinction of dinosaurs while spewing debris and molten rock into the air…
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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